D7sus4

D1G4A5C♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x233

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

798a

hard

Fig. 4

778x

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 5

7785

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

778a

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

D7sus4 is D, G, A and C — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from D.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x233: 3 fingers, held at the 2nd fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are D, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

D7sus4/G

0035

second inversion

D7sus4/A

2035

third inversion

D7sus4/C

5230

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

D in other shapes

Dsus2suspended second Dsus4suspended fourth Dmajor Dmminor Ddimdiminished

C7sus4 C♯7sus4 D♭7sus4 D♯7sus4 E♭7sus4 E7sus4 F7sus4 F♯7sus4 all 374